For 50 years, AeroVironment has advanced UAV development. Today, the company is a Technology Solutions Provider at the intersection of…
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Drones on the Job Site
Unmanned autonomous aerial vehicles and mobile robotics platforms equipped with payload sensors and cameras are a valuable—even necessary—tool for the…
Unmanned Underwater Vehicles: An Ocean of Possibilities
UUV tech has advanced, but we’ve just dipped our toes in the regulatory waters.
Reinventing Construction
Retrofitting standard construction vehicles for autonomy can make what is old new again.
Up Close With AiRXOS
The CEO of AiRXOS talks about connecting government agencies, aviation authorities and commercial operators to spur sophisticated and safe UAM and UTM operations.
Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly! – Urban Traffic Milestones
UTM, UAM, AAM: So many acronyms, but it’s all about resolving traffic complexities for autonomous flying taxis in urban environments.
Five Good Questions: Anna Dietrich
Anna Dietrich, Co-Executive Director, Community Air Mobility Initiative (CAMI) Q: What key social and economic advantages can UAM offer? A: UAM can increase…
Cargo Drones Ease the Way for Urban Air Mobility
Urban air mobility often conjures images of flying cars shuttling passengers around. However, autonomous air transport of cargo promises to…
Agility Prime— I Got (Almost) Nothing…
A masterful Air Force rollout can energize the “flying car” market.
The FTUAS Foursome
The Aerosonde HQ UAS, from incumbent provider Textron Systems Corp., was first introduced in 2016. It combines the vertical takeoff…
Beyond the Chaos
I fear you’ll be reading this while we remain besieged by COVID-19. So our first thought is to wish you…
Mission-Critical Mapping
Just-Released Quantix Recon Leverages Survey Assets for the Military Sphere Attention toward technology often favors the big, shiny and super-equipped….
Opportunities to Innovate
The Department of Defense is using industry consortia and a contracting mechanism called Other Transaction Authority to attract innovators who…
Getting It Right for Gimballed ISR
Selecting GNSS and Inertial for Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Inertial technology coupled with GPS/GNSS plays a critical role in the fast-growing…
T3: It’s More than Just a Cool Movie
A Guide to How Technology Transfer and Transition Links Federal Technologies to the Marketplace. Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines,…